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Best Cartoons of the Week
Every Friday, we collect the best political cartoons of the week and stuff them into one big, glorious slideshow.
So just relax and catch up on a week’s worth of news with our Best Cartoons of the Week slideshow.
Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and Windmills
Here’s my new cartoon about the Republican duo of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan:
It is a metaphor that made me laugh – Romney and Ryan, as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, chasing the “impossible dream” of vanquishing the entitlement windmills. It is great fun to rip off recognizable works of art for editorial cartoons – most editorial cartoonists do it every so often.
George W. Bush as King Henry VIII by Hans Holbien is one of my favorite oldies:
Romney Ryan Windmills
Mitt Romney, Taxes and the Olympics
I’m sad to see the Olympics end. They offer so many great opportunities for cartoonists, especially when an election is occurring…
Too bad dogs weren’t allowed at the Olympics. Romney brought his horse, and Obama could have entered his small-bladdered attack dog…
Meanwhile, Mitt is still being weighed down by questions over the secrecy of his tax returns…
Good luck getting a straight answer from one of his surrogates. They’ve had nearly as many gaffes this cycle as Romney himself…
Synchronized Campaign Swimming
News of Mitt Romney’s choice of Wisconsonis Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate broke late Friday night. By Saturday morning, our conservative flamethrower Gary McCoy was first on the scene, beating everyone (including me) to the cartooning punch:
I asked McCoy what he thought of the pick, and he responded:
Obviously, I think Mitt Romney made a great choice by picking Rep. Paul Ryan for his Vice Presidential running mate. Could he have made a better choice? Oh sure, Jesus perhaps. But on second thought, that would have only invited more vitriolic criticism from the left, in particular, Bill Maher, who would have likely donated another million dollars to Obama’s super pac just to smear the Son of God as another extreme right-winger who is anti-government and for pushing his Christian values on America.
Despite lacking Christ’s pure divinity, Paul Ryan is a cool-headed, economic Einstein. Sure, with him as Vice President, the country will sorely miss Joe Biden’s hilarious gaffes. But that’s just the price we’ll have to pay to finally get our country out of the gigantic debt that team Obama has thrust upon America, and relieve our future generations of the China-red shackles that it has forged for them.
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